党的十六大提出:“支持东北地区等老工业基地加快调整和改造。”温家宝总理在中央工作会议上明确提出,要把支持老工业基地加快调整改造和振兴作为突出的重要任务。实际上,东北的引智工作很早就已经开始了,早在上个世纪五十年代,前苏联援建项目专家就已经活跃在这片黑土地上了。 The 16th National Congress of the Party proposed: “We will speed up the readjustment and transformation of the old industrial bases in the northeast region.” At the Central Work Conference, Premier Wen Jiabao explicitly proposed that supporting the old industrial bases to speed up adjustment, reform and rejuvenation be a prominent and important task. In fact, the introduction of intellectual work in the Northeast has long been started, as early as the fifties of last century, former Soviet Union aid project experts have been active in this black land.